Words beginning graduate students don't know

[Joel S. Berson]

It's too long ago for me to remember, but the photo in Wikipedia
agrees:.  View "The Palisades (Hudson River)".

Joel

At 10/11/2013 11:15 AM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>I seem to recall that the Hudson Palisades were so named because the strata
>were vertical, at least in some sections.
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>DanG
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>On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Baker, John <JBAKER at stradley.com> wrote:
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> > I think many of us are more familiar with the meaning "a line of steep
> > cliffs especially along a river or ocean" than with the meaning "a fence of
> > stakes especially for defense," although the latter is the older meaning.
> >  In my case, I think first of the Kentucky River Palisades.  Apparently the
> > Hudson Palisades were the original.
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> > John Baker
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> > Torbert is correct:
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> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palisade
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> > > From: "Benjamin Torbert" <btorbert at GMAIL.COM>
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> > > I thought palisades were a bunch of vertical bis-ass logs. Correct me
> > > if
> > > I'm wrong.
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> > > Torbert
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> > > On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:29 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com>
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> > > > Postdoctorally, I resided at the Hoffleit house for a year or so in
> > > > Pacific
> > > > Palisades CA, so I think palisades must be cliffs. But I don't know
> > > > the
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